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JULIUS F. TAYLOR
Editor and Publisher
Associate Editor
DR,M.A..MAJORS
4700 South State Street
Pfeona Drexel 1416
MAY 28, 1921
VOL. XXVI.
Na.N36
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Entered as Second-Class Matter, Aug.
19, 1902, at the Post Office at Chicago,
HL Under Act of March 8, 1879.
'HON. JAMES W. BREEN; THE
THOMPSON REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF
THE CDEICUIT COURT.
Hon. James W, Breen, the First
..-'Assistant Corporation Counsel of
; - Chicago, the Thompson Republican
candidate for Judge of the Circuit
-' Court of Cook County was born in
this great city August 31, 1873, re
ceiving his early education in its
public schools from which he in time
graduated with all the honors due
him." At the end of that' period he
attended the Bryant & Stratton Busi
1 ness College and the old Chicago
7 Athenaeum where he completed his
commercial education.
Later on in life he graduated with
the highest honors from the Law De
partment of the Lake Forest Univer
" sity, and, he was admitted to the
Chicago Bar and the Illinois Bar in
,1897, and a short time after that date ,
he received his commission to practice-
in the United States Supreme
Court at Washington, D. C
It must be said to the everlasting
credit of "Mr. Brcen that right from
the very start he met with great snc-s
- cess in the practice of his chosen
profession and for many years he
has been one of the popular members
of the Chicago Bar Association.
From 1907 to 1911 he served with
honor to himself and to the citizens
of Chicago as Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney, under the late Mayor Fred
A. Basse.
In 1915 Mayor William Hale
Thompson selected Mr. Breen as As
sistant Corporation Counsel of Chi
cago, and near the iirst of the
.present year he was chosen First
Assistant Corporation Counsel and he
is more than making good in that
HON. JAMES
& -x-Jfkiit' Asastant Cprpbratioa Counsel of Chicago; tue JLnompoa
'f Sepufelkan Candidate for Jadee o the Ctrculf Court -of Cook
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HON. THOMAS G. WINDES
The Highly Honored Dean of
lounty, wno wiu xtccave uic
His Race for Re-election to His
of the Best and Fairest Circuit Court Judges in this City or
County.
Hon. Thomas G. Windcs is so well
and favorably known to the electo
rate of this city and Cook county
that he needs no long introduction to
the many readers of .this paper. He
has, in the past, honorably served as
Master-in-Charicery of the Circuit
court of this county, from 1880 to
1892, at which time he was elected
judge of the Grcuit court. From
that time to the present he has been
one of its beacon lights and one of
the most, honorable and conspicuous
jurists, or expounder of the. funda
mental principle of the laws govern
ing all the citizens, residing in this
community.
Judge WindeS, is the dean of the
Circuit court bench, being elected
every six years, from 1892 to 1915,
and as he always receives the un
stinted support and the votes of
Democrats and Republicans, as well
as the independent voter, his re-election
is assured on Monday, June 6.
He has. -the distinction of serving
as chief justice of the Circuit court;
he is an honored and prominent
member of the American, Illinois
responsible and important position
and continues to reflect great credit
upon himself and upon the adminis
tration of Mayor Thompson.
Less than two years ago Mr. Breen
who was always considered one of
the most handsome bachelors in this
city was happily united in marriage
to Miss May Lewis who is -ever so
loving and beautiful and Mr. and
Mrs. Breen reside in a lovely home
at 947. W. 54th place, and once each
week The Broad Ax finds its way
into their home as Mr. Breen who
is one of the brainy and most popu
lar public officials in the City Hall
has for.years been a strong suppor
ter of -this paper.
In 1920, after a great fight with
the aid of this paper, Mr. Breen was
elected the Thompson Committee-
W. BKEfcW
Loyal Friends Loofc'irpoaHini Ml
Junejo - : - . -, ' 'i. . -: rAV.-?&
the Circuit Court Bench of Ccok
voces oi mw vuiuicu x-cvpw
Honored Position; for He Is One
State and Chicago Bar associations.
For many years Judge Windcs has
resided in a beautiful home at Win
netka, 111., and recently, his constant
and devoted wife, Mrs. Windcs, very
peacefully closed her eyes in death
in their home and that is the main
reason why Judge Windes is refrain
ing from making .any speeches and
taking an active part in the present
judicial contest and he feels confident
that his vast army of warm friends
in all parts of this city and county
deeply sympathize with him over the
loss of his dearly beloved wife and
that they will' do everything within
their power to aid him in his re
election Monday, June 6.
The Colored Cook County Bar as
sociation, which is composed of well
onto sixty of the leading colored
lawyers in this city, has highly en
dorsed Judge Windes and its mem
bers claim that he is devoid of race
prejudice; that he knows no "color
line" in dispensing even, handed jus
tice and that thousands of colored
men and women will vote for his re
election Monday, June 6.
man of the 30th Ward, and being
well grounded in the law, his legal
training pre-eminently fits him for
the honored position which he is
seeking and his hosts of steadfast
friends feel confident that on Monday,
June 6, that he will step up higher
and that he will make an ideal Judge
of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
MANY PROMINENT LADIES
ARE WORKING HARD FOR
THE SUCCESS OF THE COAL
ITION NON-PARTISAN JUDI
CIAL TICKET.
Women, republicans and democrats,
of Chicago and Cook county have
joined hands to defeat the Gty Hall
candidates for judges. They are get
ting, workers in every precinct to can
vass for the ten republicans and ten
democrats whose names are in the
democratic column of the official bal
lot Women particularly are interested
in this election because it involves
the courts which administer the laws
concerning- mothers and children.
The Circuit Court judges assign the
Juvenile Court judge from their own
membership. He appoints a woman
assistant and 107 probation officers.
It is pointed out that the present
Juvenile Court organization under
Judge Arnold is one which cannot
be jeopardized by placing it in the
hands of political spoilsmen. This or
ganization administers the Mother's
Pension Fund of about $500,000 a
year, every dollar of which, under
Judge Arnold, has been turned over
to the mothers, with no .deductions
for salaries or operating expense.
It is further pointed out that the
Circuit Court judges appoint the
South Park Board, which has in its
employ about 1,600 persons and ex
pendsm the maintenance of the
South Side system of boulevards,
parks, recreation centers and bathing
beaches upwards of two and one-half
million dollars a. year. The expendi
ture of twenty million, dollars already
voted in bonds for improvements, un
dertaken will also be in its hands.
Mothers are interested in the proper
expenditure of these funds that their
children may enjoy the health and
pleasures they will provide.
"Women'sVJubs and .other organiza
tions, therefore, are urging' voters to
put s cross in the square in front of
the name" of -every. candidate on the.
coauuon non-partisan, ocset appear-
THE JEALOUS SPIRIT HANI-
BEST.
By Dr. M. A. Majors.
Jealousy is one of Jhe positive
symptoms jof insanity. .-.Of course; it
is generally known that no one's
mental pabulum is quite perfect. Of
course Thomas A. Edison- and old
Prof, Elliott, o Harvard, regard
themselves absolutely sound'mentally
while all the rest of us arc out of in
stitutions for the insane because
there isn't any room there for us.
We were speaking of jealousy being
a symptom of craziness. It is, and
everyone afflicted with jealousy is
tendered mentally imperfect It is
inspired by the most foolish and the
most outrageous things. A great
many people wff know are very jeal
ous and sometimes- they are very
crazy. They are entirely oblivious
of there being the slightest thing the
matter with them.
Edison thinks college men are fail
ures; of course, ifi Edison was a
college man this form of jealous rage
would have never been shown. Prof.
Elliott is jealous of the big men in
th'e legal profession .because many of
the ablest men "in America today
came from some little college, br
just, simply some high schooL Prof.
Elliott believes a man can only be
come great by going through Har
vard college. Lincoln and Douglass
didn't go through any college at alL
Some of the overrated little' folks,
mistaken for big folks, show a cer
tain cunning and bravado and yet the
very mainsprings of their lives is the
busy occupation of piling up blocks
and obstructions in the path of some
real man or woman. Doing their
dodgasted to wreak vengeance, or
bring into disrepute, those who show
by their every action that they are
all but Godsent
We were over thirty years of age
before we consistently appreciate and
believe there was a h'elL We firmly
believe there is such a place and we
have located in the heart, brain, and
backbone and, sometimes it is found
in the heel of some contemptible in
dividual who is suffering a seizure of
convulsive jealousy of the life and the
good deeds of others. y
Great nature intended that they
should thrive on far less than a glut
tonous appetite shall crave and by
hook and crook they have camou
flaged themselves into certain ques
tionable phases of prosperity by
stooping to things out of the com
mon road to destiny. There the king
of jealousy sits upon his infamous
throne and hoards of people who do
not know the "cheap guy" attributes
of his devilship.
There is a bupch of satelites of
this barbaric group, who, because
they have lived in Chicago all or most
of their lives, that everybody com
ing into great Chicago to take up
their abode should be disregarded,
hindered, obstructed or given a bad
name if they do not join the crazy
and jealous enraged high-brow group,
which is composed of seductionsists,
pimps, jailbirds, a few prostitutes,
gamblers, women sustained by the
destruction of others, and a great
number of pretty yellow bastards
and other very good folk; some well
'to do, and others to do well only by
crookedness. This bunch of society
bugs would frown down the great
ness of Dunbar. Of Dunbar they
were jealous, besides, God neglected
to make Dunbar a yellow bastard,
and so our greatest poet almost died
in obscurity.
Some of the aristocratic gentry can
well recall the days of the nickel
glass of beer and a free lunch. Some
of them are. nof so insanely jealous
to remember somejrery good look
ing people who used to feed them
when they were trying to get a pro
fessional education. This writer has
also the pedigree of a disciple of
Blackstone, whose fancy, smile and
black locks wpuld almost bespeak for
him the gentleman that he is not
He is one of the whitewashed gang
whose record of seduction among
servant girls at one time alarmed
the community. The outcast makes
no pretention and you need not be
mistaken. But here we have in Chi
cago a bunch of damnable neophytes
cutting up, and slashing the names of
obscurity, who are no cheap spot
light flashers.
For race development, race
strength, culture, religion, and intelli
gence the Negro from the south who
has chosen Chicago to live in within
the last fifteen years are our sole
dependence. Here and there is a
gleam and a spark and a sprig of
gentility and for wealth the people
from the south. Of course, if the.
Negro of the north came from the
south he would not be jealous and he
would think differently of the south.
We long for the formation and the
perpetuation of society among: us.
Some day. we will -attain it You may
then be 'assured that accidents, hu
man misfits, and orphans will not be
credited 'with the honor of the race.
The group of jealous biggots need
not grow jealous of the Negro from
the south, but one thing they had
better -do. The southern Negro is in
dead earnest and if they. don't get a
"busy spell" on themselves and keep
a humpingand a jumping they will
be run orer, obliterated,. or pat to
No one need be seized by a jeal
ous rage because we were not all
born up here in the free north. Cus
toms and mannerisms of the south
will, of course, have to be overcome,
and if these simple, honest people are
industrious and frugal,, some tomor
row will find them vastly improved
.over their present condition. A hostile-
environment has played havoc
with many of them but what has the
northern freedom done for a great
many we might name? Unfortun
ately a host of them have made but
little, if any, progress at all in twenty
years.
We iifstst that jealousy is an ugly
form of some kind of craziness.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRE
PARES FOR COMMENCEMENT.
Prominent Men Are to Make Ad
dresses at the University Exer
cisesinteresting Features.
Washington, D. C The Howard
University is preparing for its Fifty
second Annual Commencement ex
ercises. The central features w'H be
the Baccalaureate Sermon by Presi
dent J. Stanley Durkee, in Andrew
Rankin Memorial Chapel, Sunday,
June 5, at 4 P. M.; the annual meet
ing of the Board of Trustees, Tues
day, June 7, at 10 A. M.; ground
breaking for the new Home Eco
nomics and Dining Hall building
which is to cost when completed with
furnishings, approximately $200,000;
The annual meeting of the Howard
Alumni association, Friday, June 10,
at 9 A. M., at which time an address
is to be made by W. Ashbie Hawk
ins; Esq., Baltimore, Maryland, of the
Class of 1892. Mr. Hawkins is one
of Howard's most successful gradu
ates. The Theological Alumni as
sociation will hold its annual meet
ing, Friday, June 10, at 12 o'clock,
noon.
This year's alumni events will be
notable by reason of the attendance
of members who are coming from all
parts of the country to help cele
brate the Greater Howard movement.
Another feature of interest will be the
presentation of "The Canterbury
Pilgrims," a play by Percy Mackaye,
on the Howard University campus,
Thursday, June 9, at 8 P. M. The
University R. O. T. .C band will
render concerts daily from Monday
to. Friday, inclusive, during Com
mencement week.
The annual commencement address
will be delivered by the Honorable
William H. Lewis, of Boston, Massa
chusetts, formerly Assistant Attor
ney General of the United States.
The week promises to be a complete
one, crowded with events of interest
to officers, teachers, students, alum
ni and friends. The grounds will be
elaborately decorated during com
mencement week.
The annual alumni luncheon will
be served in Miner hall, Friday, June
10, at 1J0 P. M. President Charles
Dunbar Bradley King and the Li
berian Plenary commission now in
this country have been invited to be
present at the various- commence
ment exercises.
CARRAWAYS LITTLE JOKE.
One Carraway, a Democratic
United States Senator from Arkan
sas, one of the states in the Southern
murder tier, unconsciously perpetrated
a little joke when he introduced a
bill to prohibit enlistment of colored
men in the army or navy.
Of course Carraway did not mean
to be funny he put the bill in to.
please the red necks of "Rackensack."
He knows it can not pass. But the
joke is there just the same, because
colored Americans are already barred
from both army and navy except on
a jimcrow basis.
Although a resident of one of the
states, a colored man can not enter
the militia of that state on the same
basis as other citizens. He must get
into a segregated unit and then into
the U. S. Army through the jimcrow
division of the Federalized National
Guard. If he wishes to enter the
regular army he must go into a seg
regated regiment
If a young colored man happens to
read one of the lying advertisements
published by the navy, calling atten
tion to the enlistment "to traveTand
see the world," or "honorable ad
vancement," or "chance for a great
career," and with loyalty arid pa
triotism in his breast he endeavors
to enlist, he is informed by the -not
invariably polite enlistment "officer
that his only chance is as a mess at
tendant, which translated means a
servant
This is the way loyal colored citi
zens are treated by a lying, nation
which boasts of its democracy, hu
manity and Christianity. The Ap
peal, St PauL Minn, May 21, 192L
Attorney' Harris F. Williams has
removed irom the Harris Trust build
ing to the Majdstic'.buflding, where he
occupies an extensive1 'suite of law
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officePon .iheltweUthfloor, '. ' "2
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HON. HUGO M. FRIEND
Non-Partisan Candidate for Election as Judge of the Grant Cet
He Has Been Highly Endorsed by the Colored Cook ComhS
Association and His Election on Monday, June 6th, Ii Aj!j
for He la Pamstalring and Uses the Greatest Comiderii'
Passing Final Judgment on All Cases Brought Before Hi&
Hon. Hugo M. Friend, non-partisan
candidate for judge of the Circuit
Court, was ushered into this world
at Prague, Bohemia, July 21, 1882,
being the son of Marcus and Emilie
(Straschnow) Friend. At the age of
two years he accompanied his parents
to this country and to the great .city
of Chicago, where in time he blos
somed into a full-fledged American
citizen.
He received his early education at
the Doolittle Grammar' School; the
South Division High School honors
being bestowed upon him in those
schools at that time, later on attend
ing the Chicago University, receiving
his Ph. B. in 1905 and his J. D. in
1908, and he was admitted to the
Illinois bar in 1908 and from that
time he met with extraordinary suc
cess in the practice of law until he
was elevated to the Circuit Court
bench, some seven or eight months
ago.
Judge Friend has always greatly
enjoyed athletic sports. He served
as a captain of the track team of the
University of Chicago in 1905, and he
was a holder of the intercollegiate
SAVED FROM THE SOUTH.
John Reese, 3132 South Park ave
nue, a Pullman car porter running
from here to Grenada, Miss., was dis
charged from custody by Judge
Hugo Friend of the Criminal Court
on a writ of habeas corpus presented
by Attorney J. Gray Lucas. The
sheriff of Grenada was here to carry
Reese back to Mississippi on a charge
of stealing a $2,000 brooch from a
white passenger on his train. Reese
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HON. CHARLES S. DENEEN
Ex-Goversor of JJJkpis; Popdar C&zen.and Emment teL&&
WIBe Ows Tike Orators or Spellhfcder at Ae grAtc.
: -3udg&K Meetkg a Triucy Chwcb, 30tk Street and rW
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record running broad jump m m
1904, 1905; member of America
Olympic team at Athens, Greece, h
1906.
Prior to being elevated to the Cir
cuit Court bench he Honorably serttd
as master in chancery oi tbe Superior
Court, being appointed by Judge Al
bert C Barnes.
Judge Friend is president of tie
Chicago Law School Alumni Asso
ciation Chicago University. He served
as one of the members of the Ftnt
Cavalry. Illinois National Guard froa
1909 to 1911 He has always bea
actively interested in charity. He
was the creator and founder of tit
Maxwell Settlement, Winifred Ta
berculosis Sanitarium. He is a proa
inent member of the Chicago City
Club, Chicago, III, American Birud
the Lawyers' Association of IIEaoa.
Aside from sitting in civil cases, he
has at various times sat in the Juve
nile and Criminal Courts.
The judge and his good wife, Un.
Friend reside in a pleasant homed
5326 Prairie avenue, and his hosts of
friends freely predict his election to
the Circuit Court bench Monday.
June 6.
acknowledged the brooch was in his
possession, but claimed that he hi
found it on the floor of his or. At
torney Lucas showed the court that
the warrant had never been signed
by the owner of the brooch, but hj
an outsider whose only interest bj
in taking Reese back south. Re
has been in jail a month pendm? i
a hearing of his case
'After listening to all of the evi
dence in the case Judge Friend
promptly discharged John Reese-
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